Those familiar with The Power of You will know that learning more and more about the positions, industries and organizations we are interested in is the most effective way to engage our network. For those of us sticking with a well honed expertise, the questions we want to ask are slightly different. This microcast looks at questions the expert will ask, in more detail.

As with many difficult questions, the main point of asking a nonsense question is to see how we handle the unexpected. While nonsense questions may seem impossible to anticipate and have no set answer, this Power of You microcast reviews some ideas for ways to prepare nonetheless.

Interviews are the gateway to any job and so it is a good idea to know how we are being seen by our interviewers and what’s going on with the process generally. This Power of You microcast looks at how to get an idea of how we are doing.

Everyone knows that we need to send a thank you note after an interview. This Power of You microcast shows how to go beyond thank you and create a note that furthers our candidacy and gives us a competitive advantage over other interviewees.

In a job there tends to be a focus on what we do. This is rarely true in a job campaign where unfamiliar and last-minute tasks arise regularly.

Other than our overall goal of landing a job, our priorities in our job campaign are often in flux. This Power of You microcast explores some ways to organize a campaign so that we can manage unanticipated opportunities while ensuring ongoing efforts get the attention they need.

We may choose to keep our personal life personal and not mix business with pleasure. It does not have to be that way. Many of the people we know socially would be glad to assist us professionally, if they could and, if they are approached in the right way. This Power of You microcast covers some ideas for appropriately leveraging social contacts professionally.

Being open to a variety of options gives us more scope for success. At the same time, it can spread us too thin. It turns out that being persuasive about our ability to do a job requires more than a cursory understanding of that job, to be competitive. We definitely need to start by listing our options. Then we need to select one to delve into it intensely. By doing this fairly early on we get practice presenting a deeper and more nuanced picture of what we have to offer.